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I would add: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor. Premise is a software engineer is killed by a car on his first day of retirement and wakes up 300 y

I would add: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor. Premise is a software engineer is killed by a car on his first day of retirement and wakes up 300 years in the future as an AI consciousness. It has absolutely loving attention to detail regarding both software and physics sci-fi concerns. I'd also honorable mention Foucault's Pendulum by Uberto Eco, which has very little comp-sci stuff in it overall, but notably also has the search for permutations of the names of God mentioned in the article, complete with a BASIC program to do it in the text!

anderspitman 7y ago
Came here to recommend Bobiverse
otikik 7y ago
If you are into audiobooks, the one on Audible, narrated. y Ray Porter, is really good.
- manifestsilence 7y ago
  Yeah, that's how I'm doing them. Agreed, great narration.
technofiend 7y ago
Fark yeah, wish the author would finish the series.* He left readers hanging so caveat emptor. Even so I can recommend the audio books as well. Great for doing laundry, mowing the lawn, etc. May as well copy the last update from Dennis E. Taylor here since I'm not alone in wishing we had more Bobiverse novels. http://dennisetaylor.org/2019/01/06/outland-is-in-the-can/ http://dennisetaylor.org/2019/01/06/outland-is-in-the-can/ >And this means that I’m now back to writing the next Bobiverse book(s), working title “The Search for Bender.” I say book(s) because it looks like it’s going to be a duology. And spoiler alert — the end of book one will be a cliff-hanger, and a doozy. Bob and the Bill Wonder will be tied to the front of a Zamboni, while the Penguin and his henchmen–er, no, wait, I’m having a flashback. Sorry. >So stay tuned–same Bob-time, same Bob-channel–for more updates as they happen.
- irrational 7y ago
  That is exciting news about the bobiverse. But what do you mean by "wish the author would finish the series"? After finishing the last one, I felt satisfied with the ending and thought that all the loose ends had been tied up.
  - technofiend 7y ago
    If I remember correctly there are at least two Big Bad Threats still out in the universe.
tsmarsh 7y ago
These books refocused my life's work towards drones and AI. I now know what I want to be when I grow up: an interstellar von Neumann Probe. I might even make my AI butler look like General Akbar as a nod to the series.
- wil421 7y ago
  Humans are von Neumann Probes. We are just refining tech until it can become a reality.
manifestsilence 7y ago
I don't have git installed here, if anyone else wants to put in a PR for this one. :)
nurettin 7y ago
For some reason, the first story you mentioned reminded me of fight club.
beezle 7y ago
Along the same line, Pohl's Heechee Rendevous the main character's sentinence is transferred to a sophisticated database system of sorts allowing him to live on virtually with access to pretty much all info.

anderspitman 7y ago

Came here to recommend Bobiverse

otikik 7y ago

If you are into audiobooks, the one on Audible, narrated. y Ray Porter, is really good.

manifestsilence 7y ago
Yeah, that's how I'm doing them. Agreed, great narration.

technofiend 7y ago

Fark yeah, wish the author would finish the series.* He left readers hanging so caveat emptor. Even so I can recommend the audio books as well. Great for doing laundry, mowing the lawn, etc. May as well copy the last update from Dennis E. Taylor here since I'm not alone in wishing we had more Bobiverse novels. http://dennisetaylor.org/2019/01/06/outland-is-in-the-can/ http://dennisetaylor.org/2019/01/06/outland-is-in-the-can/ >And this means that I’m now back to writing the next Bobiverse book(s), working title “The Search for Bender.” I say book(s) because it looks like it’s going to be a duology. And spoiler alert — the end of book one will be a cliff-hanger, and a doozy. Bob and the Bill Wonder will be tied to the front of a Zamboni, while the Penguin and his henchmen–er, no, wait, I’m having a flashback. Sorry. >So stay tuned–same Bob-time, same Bob-channel–for more updates as they happen.

irrational 7y ago
That is exciting news about the bobiverse. But what do you mean by "wish the author would finish the series"? After finishing the last one, I felt satisfied with the ending and thought that all the loose ends had been tied up.
- technofiend 7y ago
  If I remember correctly there are at least two Big Bad Threats still out in the universe.

tsmarsh 7y ago

These books refocused my life's work towards drones and AI. I now know what I want to be when I grow up: an interstellar von Neumann Probe. I might even make my AI butler look like General Akbar as a nod to the series.

wil421 7y ago
Humans are von Neumann Probes. We are just refining tech until it can become a reality.

manifestsilence 7y ago

I don't have git installed here, if anyone else wants to put in a PR for this one. :)

nurettin 7y ago

For some reason, the first story you mentioned reminded me of fight club.

beezle 7y ago

Along the same line, Pohl's Heechee Rendevous the main character's sentinence is transferred to a sophisticated database system of sorts allowing him to live on virtually with access to pretty much all info.